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Ava Reid
Ava Reid (born 1996) is an American author of young adult fiction and adult fiction, best known for her New York Times bestselling young adult debut '' A Study in Drowning''. Early life Reid was born in Manhattan, and grew up in Hoboken, New Jersey. She attended Barnard College and has a degree in political science, in which she focused on religion and ethnonationalism. Personal life She has lived in Palo Alto, at Columbia, Cambridge, and as of 2023, Stanford, with her partner who is an academic. Her maternal family is composed of Ukrainian Jews. Reid uses she/they pronouns. She is Jewish. Career After graduating from Barnard, Reid entered PitchWars, a pitch contest for unagented authors, eventually securing agent representation and selling her first novel, ''The Wolf and the Woodsman''. Influences Reid says her style is inspired by Gothic literature as well as works by Kelly Link, Carmen Maria Machado, and Helen Oyeyemi. She feels naturally more drawn to adult fantas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manhattan
Manhattan ( ) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the Boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the County statistics of the United States#Smallest, largest, and average area per state and territory, smallest county by area in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. Located almost entirely on Manhattan Island near the southern tip of the state, Manhattan constitutes the center of the Northeast megalopolis and the urban core of the New York metropolitan area. Manhattan serves as New York City's Economy of New York City, economic and Government of New York City, administrative center and has been described as the cultural, financial, Media in New York City, media, and show business, entertainment capital of the world. Present-day Manhattan was originally part of Lenape territory. European settlement began with the establishment of a trading post by Dutch colonization of the Americas, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
We Have Always Lived In The Castle
''We Have Always Lived in the Castle'' is a 1962 mystery novel by American author Shirley Jackson. It was Jackson's final work, and was published with a dedication to Pascal Covici, the publisher, three years before the author's death in 1965. The novel is written in the voice of eighteen-year-old Mary Katherine "Merricat" Blackwood, who lives with her agoraphobic sister and ailing uncle on an estate. Six years before the events of the novel, the Blackwood family experienced a tragedy that left the three survivors isolated from their small village. The novel was first published in hardcover in North America by Viking Press, and has since been released in paperback and as an audiobook and e-book. It has been described as Jackson's masterpiece. Its first screen adaptation appeared in 2018, based on a screenplay by Mark Kruger and directed by Stacie Passon. Plot Mary Katherine "Merricat" Blackwood lives with her older sister Constance and their ailing Uncle Julian in a larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Publishers Weekly
''Publishers Weekly'' (''PW'') is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents. Published continuously since 1872, it has carried the tagline, "The International News Magazine of Book Publishing and Bookselling." With 51 issues a year, the emphasis today is on book reviews. History Nineteenth century The magazine was founded by bibliographer Frederick Leypoldt in the late 1860s and had various titles until Leypoldt settled on the name ''The Publishers' Weekly'' (with an apostrophe) in 1872. The publication was a compilation of information about newly published books, collected from publishers and from other sources by Leypoldt, for an audience of booksellers. By 1876, ''The Publishers' Weekly'' was being read by nine tenths of the booksellers in the country. In 1878, Leypoldt sold ''The Publishers' Weekly'' to his friend Richard Rogers Bowker, in order to free up time for his other bibliographic endeavors. Augu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirkus Reviews
''Kirkus Reviews'' is an American book review magazine founded in 1933 by Virginia Kirkus. The magazine's publisher, Kirkus Media, is headquartered in New York City. ''Kirkus Reviews'' confers the annual Kirkus Prize to authors of fiction, nonfiction, and young readers' literature. ''Kirkus Reviews'', published on the first and 15th of each month, previews books before their publication. ''Kirkus'' reviews over 10,000 titles per year. History Virginia Kirkus was hired by Harper & Brothers to establish a children's book department in 1926. In 1932, the department was eliminated as an economic measure. However, within a year, Louise Raymond, the secretary Kirkus hired, had the department running again. Kirkus, however, had left and soon established her own book review service. Initially, she arranged to get galley proofs of "20 or so" books in advance of their publication; almost 80 years later, the service was receiving hundreds of books weekly and reviewing about 100. Ini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherynne Valente
Catherynne Morgan Valente (born May 5, 1979) is an American fiction writer, poet, and literary critic. For her speculative fiction novels she has won the annual Otherwise Award, James Tiptree, Jr. Award, Andre Norton Award, and Mythopoeic Awards, Mythopoeic Award. Her short fiction has appeared in ''Clarkesworld Magazine'', the anthologies ''Salon Fantastique'' and ''Paper Cities'', and numerous "Year's Best" volumes. Her critical work has appeared in the ''International Journal of the Humanities'' as well as other essay collections. Career Valente's 2009 book ''Palimpsest (novel), Palimpsest'' won the Lambda Literary Award for Speculative Fiction, Lambda Award for LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror. Her two-volume series ''The Orphan's Tales'' won the 2008 Mythopoeic Awards, Mythopoeic Award, and its first volume, ''The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden'', won the 2006 Otherwise Award, James Tiptree Jr. Award and was nominated for the 2007 World Fantasy Award. In 2012, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leigh Bardugo
Leigh Bardugo (; born April 6, 1975) is an American fantasy author. She is best known for her young adult Grishaverse novels, which include the '' Shadow and Bone'' trilogy and the ''Six of Crows'' and '' King of Scars'' duologies. She also received acclaim for her paranormal fantasy adult debut, '' Ninth House''. The ''Shadow and Bone'' and ''Six of Crows'' series have been adapted into ''Shadow and Bone'' by Netflix, and ''Ninth House'' will be adapted by Amazon Studios; Bardugo is an executive producer on both works. Early life Bardugo was born in Jerusalem, on April 6, 1975, and grew up in Los Angeles, California, where she was raised by her grandparents. She describes herself as Jewish-Spanish on one side, Russian and Lithuanian on the other. She attended Yale University, graduating with a degree in English in the spring of 1997. She was a member of the Wolf's Head secret society. Before publishing her first novel, she worked in copywriting and journalism, as well as ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Arden
Katherine Arden Burdine (born 1987), best known by her pen name Katherine Arden, is an American novelist. Known primarily for her ''Winternight'' trilogy of fantasy novels, which are set in medieval Russia and have garnered nominations for Hugo and Locus Awards, she is also the author of the ''Small Spaces'' series of horror novels for middle grade children. The first in the latter series, ''Small Spaces'', won the Vermont Golden Dome Book Award in 2020 Biography Arden was born in Austin, Texas, and currently resides in Vermont. She spent a year in Moscow after high school before returning to Vermont. She attended Middlebury College, graduating with a degree in Russian and French in 2011. After graduating, and uncertain what she wanted to do, Arden took a job on a farm in Hawaii. Bored with the job, she took to writing in her spare time, and "the rest of the writing process just sort of happened in stops and starts." Arden's writing is influenced by J.R.R Tolkien, Mary R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naomi Novik
Naomi Novik (born 1973) is an American author of speculative fiction. She is known for the Temeraire (series), ''Temeraire'' series (2006–2016), an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars involving dragons, and her The Scholomance Trilogy, ''Scholomance'' fantasy series (2020–2022). Her standalone fantasy novels ''Uprooted (novel), Uprooted'' (2015) and ''Spinning Silver'' (2018) were inspired by Polish folklore and the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale respectively. Novik has won many awards for her work, including the Alex Awards, Alex, Audie Award, Audie, British Fantasy Award, British Fantasy, Locus Award, Locus, Mythopoeic Award, Mythopoeic and Nebula Awards. Early life Novik grew up in Roslyn Heights on Long Island. She is a second-generation American; her father's family were Lithuanian Jews, and her mother's family were Poland, Polish Catholics. Displaying an interest in reading at a young age, she read ''The Lord of the Rings'' at age six, and developed a love for Jane Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen I Of Hungary
Stephen I, also known as King Saint Stephen ( ; ; ; 975 – 15 August 1038), was the last grand prince of the Hungarians between 997 and 1000 or 1001, and the first king of Hungary from 1000 or 1001 until his death in 1038. The year of his birth is uncertain, but many details of his life suggest that he was born in, or after, 975, in Esztergom. He was given the pagan name Vajk at birth, but the date of his baptism is unknown. He was the only son of Grand Prince Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians, Géza and his wife, Sarolt, who was descended from a prominent family of ''Gyula (title), gyulas''. Although both of his parents were baptized, Stephen was the first member of Árpád dynasty, his family to become a devout Christian. He married Gisela of Bavaria, a scion of the imperial Ottonian dynasty. After succeeding his father in 997, Stephen had to fight for the throne against his relative, Koppány, who was supported by large numbers of pagan warriors. He defeated Koppány w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susann Cokal
Susann Cokal is an American author. She is best known for having written the novels ''The Kingdom of Little Wounds'', ''Mirabilis'', ''Mermaid Moon'', and ''Breath and Bones'', along with short stories, literary and pop-culture criticism, and book reviews. ''The Kingdom of Little Wounds'' won a Printz Award, Printz silver medal from the American Library Association in 2014. Cokal has contributed short stories to anthologies and journals including ''The Saturday Evening Post'', ''Prairie Schooner'', ''Hayden's Ferry Review'', ''Bellevue Literary Review'', ''The Cincinnati Review'', and Ohio State University's ''The Journal''. She also contributed essays about contemporary writers to ''Critique'', ''Scandinavian Studies'', ''Texas Studies in Literature and Language'', ''Style'', ''Broad Street Magazine'', and ''The Centennial Review''. She has reviewed almost four dozen books for the ''New York Times Book Review'' and has contributed reviews and essays to numerous other reviewing o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kingdom Of Little Wounds
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margo Lanagan
Margo Lanagan (born 1960 in Waratah, New South Wales) is an Australian writer of short stories and young adult fiction. Biography She grew up in Raymond Terrace and moved to Melbourne circa 1971/1972. After overseas travel, she moved to Sydney in 1982. Many of her books, including Young Adult (YA) fiction, were only published in Australia, but several have attracted worldwide attention. Her short story collection '' Black Juice'' won two World Fantasy Awards and a 2006 Printz Honor Award. It was published in Australia by Allen & Unwin, in the United Kingdom by Gollancz in 2004, and in North America by HarperCollins in 2005. It includes the much-anthologized short story " Singing My Sister Down", which was nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula Awards for the best short story. Her short story collection '' White Time'' (), originally published in Australia by Allen & Unwin in 2000, was published in North America by HarperCollins in August 2006, after the success of ''Blac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
